Dalmore 1978

$692.54

Tasting Note from Whisky Pages: "This 1978 vintage release from The Dalmore spent 29 years in American white oak before being transferred into Gonzales Byass ex-Sherry casks for two years of additional maturation. The out-turn is 477 bottles. The nose offers freshly-ground coffee, marzipan, dark berries, and rich Sherry, with milk chocolate and Jaffa oranges. The addition of water teases out smokier notes. Soft fruits and more milk chocolate, with roasted almonds on the rich, sweet palate. Long and juicy in the finish, with fruit pastilles, a hint of aniseed and coffee with cream." 4 Stars

Compass Box Last Vatted Malt

$223.19

The vatting is a combination of 26 Year Old Caol Ila matured in ex-bourbon American oak and 35 Year old sherry cask Glenallachie. This is the first time John Glaser has ever blended sherry cask matured whisky in one of his creations. Notes of lobster, dipped in cooked butter, dry, but clean smoke from a seaside campfire; candied fruit, white chocolate and salty smoke all dance on the palate with tingling spices.

OMC Inchgower 21 Year

$160.19

Auchroisk 20 Year

$221.39

A very rare release from this distillery, the Auchroisk 20 Year was part of Diageo's 2010 special releases. Shame we didn't get any of the Port Ellen or Brora! At 58.1% this is the first official bottling in years.

Glen Spey 21 Year

$337.49

Another of the Diageo 2010 special releases this bottling of Glen Spey was matured in American Oak Ex-Sherry casks. The angels must have loved it because it is a cask strength of only 50.4%!

Scotch Malt Whisky Society 26.83

$98.00

SOLD OUT! - Not expected to return to KWM! 

COSMO WITH PERFUME SAMPLES

A Northern Highlander 11 years in a Refill Hoggy has left it at 56.8%.

Panel's Tasting Note: "One panellist got glossy magazines from the nose – "Cosmo with perfume samples" corrected another. Other comments included pineapple cubes, garibaldi biscuits, wax, rock salt and garden aromas of grass and flowers. On the palate, we identified milk chocolate and refreshers, something meaty and savoury (biltong?) sharp fruits (kiwi, star-fruit), light smoke and salt. Water altered the nose (waxed lemons, green apples, rosebud tea, lemon bonbons) and improved the palate, transforming it to a deliciously sweet dram with floral elements and slivers of citrus sharpness – like rose and lemon Turkish delight. This Brora distillery commands fine views of the North Sea."

Drinking Tip: "A fine aperitif dram - to put you in a positive mood for anything."

Scotch Malt Whisky Society 93.50

$138.59

SOLD OUT! - Not expected to return to KWM! 

HOT EMBERS AT THE GATES OF HELL

Bottled at 58.6% after 20 years in a Refill Hoggy. 

Panel's Tasting Note: "Grubby, vegetal and animalistic notes discouraged some Panelists but dark cherries, liquorice, old bike chains, black pudding & barbecued pork made for a really interesting (albeit unusual) first impression. Huge taste - blackened pork belly, schnapps & burnt meat – one was chewing hot embers covered in meat grease at the gates of hell (volcanic sulphur). Water released scorched tablecloths and burnt pig hair but with the sweetness of molten fudge and barley sugar; on the palate it was long and luxurious (but still scorched) with black pudding, tattie scones and strong sweet black tea. This Campbeltown distillery was built in 1832."

Drinking Tip: "Not for the faint hearted."

Scotch Malt Whisky Society 71.34

$109.79

SOLD OUT! - Not expected to return to KWM! 

RABBIT, GINGER & TREACLE TART

Matured 13 years in a First Fill Sherry Butt and bottled at 56.8%. 

Panel's Tasting Note: "Big rich sweet aromas accosted the Panel – ginger cake, strawberry Chewits, treacle tart, cinnamon, malt loaf but also earthy mushrooms, Marigolds (the gloves not the flowers), leather and musky horses; this was when one Panellist pictured herself riding a spice-bag-laden Andalusian horse through orchards wearing leather chaps. Warm, sweet, savoury on the palate, hot and tannic with rosemary & sage, saddle polish, rabbit paella, warm chocolate sponge, dried cranberries and hazelnuts. Diluted, aromas of olive groves, red apples, hay and grilled rabbit with smooth, creamy tastes of oranges, prunes, strawberries, apricots and more rabbit. Founded as Kinflat distillery in 1810."

Drinking Tip: "While riding through the orchard on hot summer days."

Scotch Malt Whisky Society 121.51

$98.09

SOLD OUT! - Not expected to return to KWM! 

AMAZING WAVES OF SWEETNESS

A highland whisky, 9 years in a refill sherry butt and bottled at 61.3%.

Panel's Tasting Note: "The nose flooded us with waves of sweetness – dark chocolate millionaire's shortbread, light molasses, thick-cut marmalade, spiced fruit cake with plump sultanas and raisins, toffee, barley sugars. Water brought out some leather and nutty aromas (almond, marzipan, walnut, hazelnut) and Nutella crêpes flambéed in Cointreau. The unreduced palate was big but enjoyable – an iron fist in a velvet glove – Green & Black's Maya Gold (spicy orange chocolate), liquorice, almonds and oak shavings drizzled in maple syrup. With water, the palate had chocolate pralines, Crunchie bars, cane sugar and rose-water – absolutely amazing. The only distillery on this Firth of Clyde island."

Drinking Tip: "For any special occasion."